the road was constructed he opened a store and house of entertainment for travelers, from which he derived a considerable income.
138. Letter of Secretary of War to governors of Georgia and Tennessee, dated November 21, 1803.
139. April 4, 1804.
140. October 10, 1804. See letter of Daniel Smith to Secretary of War, October 31, 1804.
141. October 31, 1804.
142. Commissioner Smith in his letter of October 31, 1804, to the Secretary of War, states that two persons on the part of the United States, to be accompanied by two Cherokee chiefs, had been designated to run the boundaries of this cession. The propriety was then urged on the Cherokees by the commissioners of making a cession of the lands lying between East and West Tennessee. Several days were consumed in urging this proposal, and a majority of the chiefs were probably in favor of it, but Commissioner Smith remarks that a majority, unless it amounts almost to unanimity, is not considered with them sufficient to determine in matters of great interest, particularly in making cessions of lands.
143. December 20, 1811.
144. It is stated in a resolution of the Georgia legislature, passed June 16, 1802, that this line was surveyed by Colonel Hawkins in 1798.
145. The letter of the Cherokee delegation calling attention to this matter is dated January 19, 1824.
146. February 6, 1824.
147. April 15, 1824.
148. April 30,1824.
149. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 228.
150. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 93.
151. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 95.
152. November 2, 1805. See letter of transmittal of Return J. Meigs and Daniel Smith.
153. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, pp. 93 and 95.
154. January 10, 1806.
155. See field notes of Colonel Martin on file in office of Indian Affairs.
156. Letter of R. J. Meigs to Secretary of War, March 4, 1811.
157. Letter of Meigs and Smith to Secretary of War, January 10, 1806.
158. See report of Commissioner Indian Affairs to Secretary of War, December 9, 1834.
159. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101.
160. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.
161. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 101.
162. May, 1807.
163. Message of President Jefferson to U. S. Senate, March 29, 1808, and letter of R. J. Meigs, September 28, 1807. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.
164. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII.
165. President Jefferson to U.S. Senate, March 29, 1808. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.
166. February 21, 1806. Indian Office records.
167. On the return home of the Cherokee delegation that visited Washington in 1801, "The Glass," a noted Cherokee chief, represented to his people that the Secretary of War had said, "One Joseph Martin has a claim on the Long Island of Holston River." This the Secretary of War denied, in a letter dated November 20, 1801, to Col. R.J. Meigs.
168. April 1. Indian Office records.
169. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 103.
170. Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, September 28, 1807, in which he says: "With respect to the chiefs who have transacted the business with us, they will have their hands full to satisfy the ignorant, the obstinate, and the cunning of some of their own people, for which they well deserve this silent consideration."
171. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 138.
172. Two treaties appear of the same date and negotiated by the same parties. It is to be noted that the first controls a cession to the State of South Carolina and the second defines certain other concessions to the United States.
173. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 139.
174. United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, pp. 138 and 139.
175. February 28, 1807.
176. December 2, 1807. See American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 753.
177. Letter of Return J. Meigs to Secretary of War, December 3, 1807.